"Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America, telling the story of how America's ruling classes created the category of the "white race" as a means of social control. Since that early invention, white privileges have enforced the myth of racial superiority, and tha…
"From the 'gay gene' to the 'female brain' and African American students' insufficient 'hereditary background' for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows where they got their s…
This volume offers a critical, cross-disciplinary, and international overview of emerging scholarship addressing the dynamic relationship between race and markets. Chapters are engaging and accessible, with timely and thought-provoking insights that different audiences can engag…
This book argues that African American theatre in the twentieth century represented a cultural front of the civil rights movement. Highlighting the frequently ignored decades of the 1940s and 1950s, Burrell documents a radical cohort of theatre artists who became critical player…
This book addresses the need to radically transform societies plagued by racism. It places prominence on persistent racialized violence in the lives of Black Americans as influential in how Black people in the U.S. and abroad perceive themselves as Black in juxtaposition to thei…
"A hybrid of memoir and history, Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo explores Brenda F. Berrian's experiences of being both an insider and outsider throughout her global travels and of developing her racial, feminist, and political consciousness as a Black wom…
"A hybrid of memoir and history, Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo explores Brenda F. Berrian's experiences of being both an insider and outsider throughout her global travels and of developing her racial, feminist, and political consciousness as a Black wom…
A critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge and re-shape exclusive formulations of 'home' and 'homeland' rooted in racist and heteronormative practices spread by transatlantic neoliberalism.
A critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge and re-shape exclusive formulations of 'home' and 'homeland' rooted in racist and heteronormative practices spread by transatlantic neoliberalism.
A critical exploration of the ways that postcolonial diasporas challenge and re-shape exclusive formulations of 'home' and 'homeland' rooted in racist and heteronormative practices spread by transatlantic neoliberalism.